Canva
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.
Founding Year
2012
Headquarters
Surry Hills
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Australia
Sector(s)
SaaS
Funding State
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Exited
Total Funding Amount
$571.96M
Funds that Investested
General Catalyst
We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Greenoaks
VC firm founded in 2012 that makes concentrated, long-term investments in technology-enabled businesses globally.
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Series A
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Shasta Ventures
Early-stage fund with a 15-year track record of investing in innovative early-stage startups across the tech stack.
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500 Global
Previously called 500 Startups, 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Their portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million.
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Bessemer Venture Partners
With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.
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Sequoia Capital
Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.
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Founders Fund
SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.
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Global Founders Capital
VC arm of the German tech incubator Rocket Internet. Their platform offers their founders all the support they need to scale.
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Investors that Investested
Juliet de Baubigny
General Partner, Bond
Juliet de Baubigny is a General Partner at Bond and focuses on emerging technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. She is actively involved with investments in Spotify, Omio, Brex, FabFitFun, and Spotahome. Prior to joining Bond, Juliet was a Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Over an 18-year career, she worked closely with a broad number of companies including Amazon, Google, Nest, Bloom Energy, Chegg, and Beyond Meat. She has advised founders and CEOs on company building, leadership development, and strategic partnerships.'
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Tod Francis
Founder and Managing Director, Shasta Ventures
In 2004, Tod co-founded Shasta Ventures to build a venture firm focused on serving the entrepreneur and a desire to back founders who leverage technology innovation to improve consumer experiences. He has backed companies such as Canva, Mint, Zwift, Tonal, Maurten, Glint, Class Dojo, Doctor on Demand and Stance. Prior to Shasta, Tod was a general partner at Trinity Ventures and began his career in consumer brand management at Johnson & Johnson. While not leading new investments in the new fund at Shasta, Tod continues to oversee existing portfolio companies and help manage prior Shasta funds.
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Series B+
Mary D'Onofrio
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Mary is a partner and co-founder of the growth investment practice at Bessemer Prior to Bessemer, Mary worked in Equity Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley and held roles at Apple and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Mary graduated with honors with an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University and holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management
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Cristina Cordova
Partner, First Round Capital
Cristina previously served as the Head of Platform & Partnerships at Notion. Before Notion, Cristina spent more than seven years at Stripe as it scaled from 28 to nearly 3000 people, leading the Partnerships function and the business units for Stripe’s Corporate Card & Treasury products.Cristina was also previously an active angel investor, focusing on founders building fintech, SaaS and developer products as she advised and invested in more than 50 startups.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi
Co-Founder and General Partner, Footwork
Author of the next big thing (nbt.substack.com).
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Series A
Series B+
Wesley Chan
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, FPV Ventures
Wesley Chan is an early investor in five $10B+ Decacorns and 20+ $1B+ Unicorns, including Canva, Guild, Dialpad, & AngelList. He was first check into Flexport, Robinhood, Plaid, & Gusto. Founded Google Analytics and Google Voice during his 14 year career at Google. He also holds 17 patents for his work on building Google’s early Ads system.
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Series A
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Byron Deeter
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
To date, nineteen of Byron’s investments are valued above $1 billion, including ten IPOs and counting. Byron first raised a Series A with Bessemer Venture Partners back in 2000, as CEO and founder of Trigo Technologies. His company grew to be one of the first global SaaS companies, reaching profitability and was successfully sold to IBM. Byron foresaw that cloud computing would not only change the way people built new technologies but also how The Cloud would systematically run the world. In 2005, Byron returned to Bessemer, this time to lead the fund’s global cloud practice. He graduated with honors from The University of California, Berkeley.
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Kyle Doherty
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Began career as an equity analyst immersed in the growth possibilities for tech companies that were already valued at tens of billions of dollars. Later focused on consumer internet investments at VC firm Morgenthaler and then joined Coatue Management, where he launched their private investment practice. Studied economics and finance at MIT and went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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